Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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Most people never listen.
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It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
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No Pilar," Agustin said. "You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.
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A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
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I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it.
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This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.
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All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care.
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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
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Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do
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Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?
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I love you for all that you are, all that you have been, all that you're yet to be.
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I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.
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Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it.
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Love is something that hangs up behind the bathroom door and smells of Lysol.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.
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Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.
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Drinking is a way of ending the day.
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Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
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No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.
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Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.